The year 1935 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.

Events

• 23 January - Station 1YA Auckland moves into the first purpose-built broadcasting premises in New Zealand.^[1]
• 25 January - Tsar Boris III signs a decree making all broadcasting in Bulgaria a state-organized activity.
• 17 February - The Droitwich medium-wave transmitter begins service, broadcasting the Midland Regional Programme of the BBC on a frequency of 1013 kHz.
• 28 April - Fireside chat: On the Works Relief Program
• 24 March - Major Bowes Amateur Hour is broadcast nationally for the first time on NBC, after having been on the New York City radio station WHN.
• 1 June - In Japan, NHK begins its international service, Radio Japan, with a daily one-hour programme in English and Japanese beamed towards North America.
• 29 July - Lux Radio Theater has its first show on CBS, after having been on NBC Blue for a year.
• 4 August - In Portugal, the Emissora Nacional de Radiodifus o, forerunner of today's RDP - Radiodifus o Portuguesa, is officially inaugurated.

Debuts

• 4 January - Bob Hope has his network radio debut on the variety show The Intimate Revue.
• 4 February - Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch debuts on CBS.
• 20 April - Your Hit Parade (first known as just "The Hit Parade" or "Lucky Strike Hit Parade") debuts on NBC.
• 27 April Flash Gordon, a popular comic strip, debuts as a radio serial on the Mutual Broadcasting System
• 9 October - Cavalcade of America debuts on CBS.
• 5 December - Bing Crosby becomes guest host of the Kraft Music Hall (and the following month becomes full-time host, after Paul Whiteman).

Closings

Births

• 3 December - Les Crane, San Francisco, California-based radio announcer and television talk show host who won a Grammy for his recording of the poem, Desiderata.
• Gary Dee (died 1995), pioneer in controversial talk radio, mostly in Cleveland, Ohio.

Deaths

References

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